DNS not updating

Hi All,

I am having a problem. I set up a new DNS server. It is answering queries correctly, but I am not sure why, nothing is propagating out to the internet. I am running bind 9.7.3 in a Windows 2003 server.
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This is the named.conf, which is sitting in c:\named\etc

I keep my zone files on a separate drive in the root of the the E:\ drive

You have a simple set up with no hosted zones it appears. Well 1 zone for the reverse loopback. Just a recursive server other than that. DNS doesn't really propagate. Or at least that's not a good term for it (although it's used quite a lot). So what are you trying to get done exactly? Adding zones?

I have a load of zone files sitting on the e: drive. I thought the conf would be looking at the zone files on e:\ and be loading them. I must be close because the event viewer in windows says its loading them.

When I say not propagating. I mean that if I update a zone file and you look up that zone record for one of the domain names I host, there seems to be no updates.

You have to list the zones you use in the named.conf file. Right now you have the hints zone and reverse lookup for the loopback zone in named.conf. If you want BIND to look at any other zones, just add them and reload the named.

Well as long as you have the zones it should be fine. When you update zone files, the information has to be reloaded for named. In linux and UNIX, this usually is just a quick restart of named, so I'm not sure what you would do in Windows. I'm a BIND user, but I've never done it in Windows.

Also keep in mind that if a record is cached somewhere, you wont see an update until the cached record expires and the name server pulls a new one. So there can be a delay.